Comments on: the tyranny of the new and shiny at wordpress/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/various and sundry notionsThu, 18 Mar 2021 10:04:22 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Brownian Motion Thursday – Disaffected Musings/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1495Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:04:22 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1495[…] I wasn’t the only WordPress blogger who disliked the Block Editor and favored the Classic. This post is called “[T]he tyranny of the new and shiny at wordpress.” By the way, the post […]

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]]>By: whbeebe/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1494Wed, 17 Mar 2021 22:50:53 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1494rulesoflogic — And they may be well beyond me as well. I already have a pretty full plate for a retired guy, and no plan ever survived contact with reality, to wit: browsing the WordPress code repo for five minutes poured immense amounts of cold water on the rosy idea of forking the code base. I may do something about it in the nebulous future, but for the next few months this idea goes on the far end of the back burner. Maybe come June or July I’ll re-examine all of this.

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]]>By: rulesoflogic/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1493Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:31:03 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1493In reply to whbeebe.

Thanks, but your solutions are WAY beyond me.

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]]>By: whbeebe/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1492Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:24:38 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1492In reply to rulesoflogic.

I figured that Classic Editor’s days were limited. I suppose I better get on the stick and find another place to go with the idea of migrating everything over to there. I have started looking, but the sad thing is that most of the hits are for migrating from Blogger to WordPress. You can export your WordPress blog via XML, to be uploaded elsewhere to another platform that may understand the WordPress XML format.

One crazy idea: Fork WordPress to get rid of all the new stuff and keep Classic Editor. WordPress has a repo on Github (https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress), so forking the repo would be dead simple. Not only would I remove all the excess, I would work to harden the entire code base, removing support for plugins. Every time I turn around there’s a major security breach across tens of thousands of WordPress sites due to shittily written plugins.

Another crazy idea: Re-write the PHP engine (PHP is what WordPress is written in) in Rust. This is already happening in another corner of the web; Ryan Dahl, the original author of NodeJS, has created Deno (https://deno.land/), a secure JavaScript runtime written in Rust. I’m using Deno across multiple systems (Intel and Arm), and it does work, and work well. I would call my re-write Pip, which would be a circular acronym for ‘Pip Isn’t PHP,’ or maybe Pirp (pronounced ‘perp’) for ‘Pirp Is Rusty PHP.’

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]]>By: rulesoflogic/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1491Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:03:31 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1491Thanks for liking my comment. I know we are not the only people who think the new editor is a step backwards. In fact, I know two bloggers who have stopped blogging because the path to the Classic Editor is so constrained.

https://disaffectedmusings.com

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]]>By: rulesoflogic/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1490Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:52:00 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1490Amen, sir! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it…I have written about the “push” to the Block(head) Editor in my blog. I may have to dance with the devil (Blogger) to keep blogging if I no longer have a path to the Classic Editor.

Who thinks that inserting a block to create spacing is easier/more intuitive than hitting the Enter key?! I don’t give a crap about wrapping text around a photo. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but WordPress has only committed to the Classic Editor through the end of this year.

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]]>By: whbeebe/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1489Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:17:41 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1489In reply to Marc Beebe.

I would switch from WordPress, except I now have a large body of “work” that I would want to transfer off of this platform and onto the one I would transfer to. I have no desire to leave anything behind the way I did when I switched from Blogger to WordPress.

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]]>By: Marc Beebe/2021/03/17/the-tyranny-of-the-new-and-shiny-at-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-1488Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:55:40 +0000/?p=6514#comment-1488The past week they have inundated me with e-mails to upgrade (i.e. give them money). For what? All they ever do is add on gunk that makes the site worse (Facebook Syndrome). So far Classic Editor is still available through the Admin link. Blockhead Editor is so slow it doesn’t even load on my machine. They need to learn that “new” and “improved” are not synonyms.
I fully expect the Classic Editor to vanish entirely one day. When it does, so will I. No one will miss the latter, but everyone will miss the former.

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